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...generation ago, San Sebastián de los Reyes was a sleepy bedroom community of 27,000 people at the northern tip of greater Madrid. The high point of the local calendar was the traditional festival of Cristo de los Remedios in late August, when residents celebrated with fireworks, bullfights and bull running. The rest of the year, the demands of the town's residents were relatively simple: clean streets, regular garbage pickup and an early bus down Burgos Road to Madrid, where the jobs were. These days, San Sebastián de los Reyes refers to itself as Sanse...
...After a tip from rocker Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow on when they were leaving the hospital with their first child, Apple, a photographer pal reportedly sold the exclusive photos...
...same time that innocent Jews were being assaulted and Jewish cemeteries being vandalized in Europe. Summers’ January 2005 speech at the National Bureau of Economic Research emphasizing women’s innate deficiencies and dismissing well-documented forms of gender discrimination was thus the jagged tip of an iceberg. As the President of Harvard University, Summers spoke for us, was legitimized by our reputation for scholarly excellence, and, in censoring our communications and invitations to guest lecturers, prevented us from speaking for ourselves. Even when given the opportunity in his final days as president to speak...
...DOUBTING DIVERSITYThe University defended its admissions policies that considered race a factor in an amicus brief it filed with other universities in the 1978 Bakke v. Regents of the University of California and again in the 2003 Grutter v. Bollinger.“The race of an applicant may tip the balance in his favor just as geographic origin or a life spent on a farm may tip the balance in other candidates’ cases,” the University’s brief in ’78 stated. Supreme Court Chief Justice Lewis F. Powell cited...
...Student Council.3/7: The Faculty rejects a bio-chem proposal for dropping the non-honors track. Dan H. Hinz ’56 wins a green Ford thunderbird sports car and a 21 in color TV set after taking one of the ten top prizes in the Viceroy filter-tip naming contest.3/15: University takes its first stance on desegregation: the Divinity School permits its Chapel to be used for prayer for black ministers arrested on charges of encouraging a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. 3/17: The biggest blizzard in march since 1888 hits Cambridge. A second blizzard three days later causes...